Publisher/Self-Published（私家版）

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Japanese photographer Suzuki Kiyoshi's photo collection "Flowing Song Soul and Soul (First Edition)". Born in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Suzuki worked at a printing company while attending night school, learning the process of making plates and printing, and lived a life filled with the smell of ink before moving to Tokyo. He initially aspired to be a manga artist, but was influenced by the photographs of Domon Ken and began to aim to become a photographer. He made his debut in Camera Mainichi with a series depicting the coal mines of Iwaki City, where he was born and raised. After that, he published eight photo books during his lifetime, mostly self-published, while teaching at Tokyo College of Photography. This book is his first photo book, published in 1972 with a limited run of 1,500 copies. It is a four-part series that begins with "Distant Days in My Hometown," which focuses on works from the Coal Mining Town series, followed by "In the Middle of Summer," which depicts people and landscapes from all over Japan, "Actors on a Flowing Journey," which follows a popular theater troupe, and concludes with the personal photographic image "At Night." The book is full of sentimental nostalgia and a moist, enka-like tone, which she describes as "too honest to Japanese sensibilities, like Harumi Miyako's enka." This is the first collection of works by one of Japan's leading photographers, who has always insisted on self-publishing and has always been particular about the editing, binding, and other aspects of his photo books.